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...battles will be all the tougher to call given the gubernatorial race’s potential to motivate unusually high turnout, according to Cambridge political observer Robert Winters. The governor’s race, which has heated up in recent weeks, will probably inspire more voters to take a stand on one of the four big local names, he said...
...result, turnout is expected to rise as high as 30%. (In the 1996 election, New Delhi claimed a turnout of 45% but independent observers estimated it at 5-8%.) India hopes the exercise will produce a broad spectrum of representatives who subscribe to the reality of Indian rule. In Islamabad, President Pervez Musharraf last month dismissed the elections as a "farce." But sources within the Pakistani administration say he recognizes real possibilities for Kashmir's most convincing election in memory. One senior official says the Pakistani government is working on a peace plan for Kashmir, which Musharraf might disclose...
...Democrats get the message right, they remain far behind the Republicans in raising the money to get it out. Gephardt urges his candidates to hold back spending on television commercials until the end, an idea he took from Gingrich's '94 playbook. The key to Democratic victories will be turnout, he says. In Iowa the party has invested millions in computer software so workers can ply towns and neighborhoods each evening, PalmPilot in hand, hunting down Democratic voters, especially any who want absentee ballots, ensuring that they have returned them, even offering to deliver the ballots to polling places...
...Democrats get the message right, they remain far behind the Republicans in raising the money to get it out. Gephardt urges his candidates to hold back spending on television commercials until the end, an idea he took from Gingrich's '94 playbook. The key to Democratic victories will be turnout, he says. In Iowa the party has invested millions in computer software so workers can ply towns and neighborhoods each evening, PalmPilot in hand, hunting down Democratic voters, especially any who want absentee ballots, ensuring that they have returned them, even offering to deliver the ballots to polling places...
Fergusson led the field with 18,542 votes on the 32,556 ballots mailed in by alumni from all of Harvard’s schools. That turnout was down slightly compared with past years...